I know you have Ridge. It’s all there in your first post of that topic
Ninthace – top and bottom of it is, it’s just a log that people can set their personal mileage goal and update their progress along the way. It wasn’t ever set up to be a challenge or competition as far as I’m aware (not even in the past … I think it’s been running since 2010 in some way, shape or form).
Jimbob – no chance for me. I’d have to change my blog name for starters
To be fair Mel, the original question was simply how do people measure and what is it they measure? It sort of drifted from there. I'm sorry i referred to it as a 1000 mile challenge thread in later posts - that was me seeing it as a rollover from previous years and getting carried away.
My point is that any mileage list invites comparison. I was intrigued to know what the data represented in terms of quality of walking and how accurate it was. For example, anyone with a dog could easily rack up over 700 miles a year just exercising it whereas someone else could do a few LDWs to produce a similar mileage. To me, one is a walk, the other is a Walk. Does it matter? I don't know. As I said, I only record Walks but that is self imposed rule to restrict my spreadsheet to the things that matter to me. At the end of the year I know how many trips I did, how far I went, roughly how much ascent and total time spent walking. It allows me to see how i am going as I get longer in the tooth but it is no interest to anyone else..
Richardh, my view us that if you share it, it should be a good guesstimate. If you don't you can SWAG it as much as you like.